Border Search and Rescue
The line up of vehicles at the rescue base in Kelso. The base is a garage with three doors and is no longer suitable for us by the service. There are no toilet facilities, the vehicles only just fit in and there is very limited storage space for equipment. Other equipment is stored at another site one mile away which slows down response times to rescue calls. They are currently fundraising £450k for a new purpose built base that will meet the needs of the organisation.

SN06 DYW
Border Search and Rescue
Land Rover Defender
Based at Kelso, Scotland. The team respond to call outs made via the police to searches in the Scottish Borders. Working on the boundary between two countries brings its unique challenges, such as identifying which side of the border a found body was on (and therefore which police service will investigate it) and working with neighbouring North of Tyne SAR who are under the Mountain Rescue England and Wales umbrella rather than the Scottish equivalent.

SN12 DSZ
Border Search and Rescue
Land Rover Defender
Used by the volunteer rescuers based at Kelso.

SN18 HMC
Border Search and Rescue
Mercedes Sprinter
Call sign Reiver Zulu, this was new in June 2018 and replaced a S registration Ford Transit County

P975 JKY
Yorkshire Lowland Search and Rescue
Mercedes Sprinter
Previously used by Edale Mountain Rescue Team

LO18 UWM
Midshires Search and Rescue
Fiat Ducato
Used by the water search team of the lowlands rescue organisation

T777 HRL
Humber Rescue
Land Rover Defender

RAF
Westland Sea King
Now in preservation at the RAF Museum

RAF
Westland Whirlwind HAR10
Now in preservation at the RAF Museum. Previously saw service between 1961 and 1982.

G-MCGE
HM Coastguard
Sikorsky S-92A
The Bristow-operated Coastguard helicopter is seen here rescuing a gentlemen from the roof of a cathedral. After lowering a medic and a stretcher the man in winched up into the helicopter that is hovering over the Minster in York, drawing large crowds. The narrow spiral staircases taking visitors to the roof of the buidling are not suitable for stretchering someone down. The Coastguard provide search and rescue helicopters for the whole country and practice every few years winching someone off the roof of York Minster.